What was team Garcia thinking?

[Deeznuts]

Brandon Rios came in at 159 on fight night. He is a slow fighter at a lower weight class but comes in that heavy to fight a fast Pacquiao. That was one bad game plan. If that was all Ariza, he sucks. If the game plan was to walk Pacquiao down 10 less pounds would probably have helped his speed at least.

[BG_Knocc_Out]

Brandon Rios came in at 159 on fight night. He is a slow fighter at a lower weight class but comes in that heavy to fight a fast Pacquiao. That was one bad game plan. If that was all Ariza, he sucks. If the game plan was to walk Pacquiao down 10 less pounds would probably have helped his speed at least.

It's not the fact that there's more weight added... it's WHAT that extra weight is composed of. In the case of boxing, it's essentially all water weight, which isn't going to hinder your performance.

[Hougigo]

Also didn't help he fought like a punching bag and only threw when they tied up.... literally the only time other than a few hooks.
How the hell do you win a fight like that?

[El Angel]

I honestly want to know what the gameplan was. He didn't seem to actually have one. Just walk forward, get dissected with combos, and lose a wide UD. Made no sense and even rewatching it, I still can't see what his goal was. Maybe he actually thought he would KO Manny Pacquiao

[ИATAS]

Also didn't help he fought like a punching bag and only threw when they tied up.... literally the only time other than a few hooks.
How the hell do you win a fight like that?

He started out using the jab a bit but abandoned it.

Really though Rios is simply a limited fighter that is not even close to Pacquiao's level so not much he could do.

[Hougigo]

He started out using the jab a bit but abandoned it.

Really though Rios is simply a limited fighter that is not even close to Pacquiao's level so not much he could do.

He had no sense of urgency either.
No way he thought he was up or close through 8.... he had to step it up

[KingTito]

Honestly, this sounds ridiculous, but it's possible that they were strictly banking on Pacquiao being shot because in truth, that's the only chance he actually had.

[bigcursedawg]

Garcia and his fighters are way overrated. Donaire and Rios look like beasts when they were fighting under sized and over matched opponents. Now that they don't have those phyisical advantages they don't look so great.

[samouraļ]

Honestly, this sounds ridiculous, but it's possible that they were strictly banking on Pacquiao being shot because in truth, that's chance he actually had.

They said a lot of pre-fight to support this theory.

[~AK49~]

I honestly want to know what the gameplan was. He didn't seem to actually have one. Just walk forward, get dissected with combos, and lose a wide UD. Made no sense and even rewatching it, I still can't see what his goal was. Maybe he actually thought he would KO Manny Pacquiao

Pretty sure the gameplan was to just hit Manny pacquiao hard, or at least try to.

Inb4 trainer of the year